
European leaders are facing growing pressure from campaigners and ocean advocates to strengthen regulation and the enforcement of protections afforded to many of their marine protected areas by banning destructive fishing practices such as bottom trawling within their waters for good.
Led by a consortium of environmental campaigners including the Blue Marine Foundation, Oceana, Only One, and Seas at Risk, the Protect Our Catch campaign has published an open letter addressed directly to the French President, Emmanuel Macron and the EU Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans, Costas Kadis, which warns that without urgent action against trawling, Europe’s protected marine spaces risk being stripped of marine life.
Backed by a community of fishers as well as thousands of citizen activis...
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